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The economy will save our majority, say Senate Dems

Sen. Mark Pryor (Ark.), one of the Democratic Party’s most vulnerable incumbents, said an improving economy “probably” will help him.

“I think the overall economy is resilient,” he said. “Sometimes the gridlock and bickering up here in Washington hurts the economy, but I think the economy will continue to get a little stronger over the course of the year.

“I assume that tends to help incumbents,” he added.

Sen. Michael Bennet (Colo.), the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said there’s “no question” a rising economy will help Democrats retain the Senate.

“That’s really what people at home are focused on and that’s what they’ll make their judgments based on at the end of the day, whether they’re seeing economic growth,” he said.

Sadly for Democrats, there is a BIG disconnect between claiming the GDP rose by 4% in the 4th quarter of 2013 and the American people’s basic perception of just how crappy the economy is. The economy is treading water in SPITE of everything Democrats are doing and the more news about how bad Obamacare will ultimately do is just going to push both the real economy and people’s percpetions down further.

The idea that the economy will actually improve, or that people will buy that is dubious at best.

Plus there was a story already this week about how a bad economy hurts incumbents, but a good economy has no effect. So, yeah, FAIL.

So the Dems are planning to run on Obamacare and the economy? I guess they’re trying to test how dumb the electorate truly is. If they survive 2014 on that platform, they may as well fully embrace Marxism heading in 2016.

Tens of millions of fresh ObamaFAIL victims will be created in October due to the employer mandate push back from last year. Millions of freshly PO’d voters isn’t going to help their cause so close to the election.

If anything saves them it’ll be a couple Republicans getting baited into saying something stupid or awkward about women or gays, then the media blowing it up and a bunch of people voting against their own interests over kerfuffle they won’t even remember in a month. Then a couple years later they will wonder why they still can’t get a job or find decent medical services.

The economy sucks. My income has diminished every single fracking year these a holes have been in office. It’s getting to the point that I’m starting to fear losing the things my family and I have worked so hard for. Like the roof over my kids heads. F U democrats!

So the Dems are planning to run on Obamacare and the economy? I guess they’re trying to test how dumb the electorate truly is. If they survive 2014 on that platform, they may as well fully embrace Marxism heading in 2016.

Doughboy on January 8, 2014 at 3:53 PM

Or how much the MSM can swing the election towards them. We have to remember that a significant number of people get their news from the big 3 networks and the big papers. All of which are hardcore left and control public opinion far more than they should. I don’t think the repubs are a shoe-in nor do I think the dems are as in trouble as the cons think. The MSM got BO elected twice and is the number one cheerleader for the dems. They lie in favor of the dems every single day. Remember if it were not for an internet blog Dan Rather may have had a Pulitzer sitting on his mantle. They are the propaganda wing of the dem party and they will not be that stupid again.

The economy sucks. My income has diminished every single fracking year these a holes have been in office. It’s getting to the point that I’m starting to fear losing the things my family and I have worked so hard for. Like the roof over my kids heads. F U democrats!

jawkneemusic on January 8, 2014 at 4:09 PM

Been there. Well I didn’t loose the house but I did wipe out savings and retirement and I’m living paycheck to paycheck as a very underemployed person. I do blame it on BO and the dems. My wife thinks I shouldn’t but if they hadn’t fracked the economy I may not have been unemployed for 4.5 years and I may have gotten a job quickly rather than being one of a 1000 that applied for the job.

If anything saves them it’ll be a couple Republicans getting baited into saying something stupid or awkward about women or gays, then the media blowing it up and a bunch of people voting against their own interests over kerfuffle they won’t even remember in a month. Then a couple years later they will wonder why they still can’t get a job or find decent medical services.

forest on January 8, 2014 at 4:05 PM

I think they do a fine job of being stupid without being baited. Sometimes I can’t believe how stupid they are without the help of anyone.